How To Install libcuda1 on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcuda1 on Kali Linux.
What is libcuda1
libcuda1 is:
The Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) enables NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs) to be used for massively parallel general purpose computation.
This package contains the CUDA Driver API library for low-level CUDA programming.
Supported NVIDIA devices include GPUs starting from GeForce 8 and Quadro FX series, as well as the Tesla computing processors.
Please see the nvidia-kernel-dkms or nvidia-kernel-source packages for building the kernel module required by this package. This will provide nvidia-kernel-460.73.01.
There are three methods to install libcuda1 on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libcuda1 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libcuda1 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libcuda1Install libcuda1 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libcuda1 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libcuda1Install libcuda1 Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libcuda1 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libcuda1How To Uninstall libcuda1 on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the libcuda1 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libcuda1Uninstall libcuda1 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libcuda1 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libcuda1Remove libcuda1 Configurations and Data
To remove libcuda1 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libcuda1Remove libcuda1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libcuda1 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libcuda1Dependencies
libcuda1 have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcuda1 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
